Anne Ozorio wrote:
>The reason I talk about these things is nor to disagree with you, but
>because the real role of women composers has been obscured by a lot of
>well meaning but inaccurate pseudo feminist ideology - the same "special
>pleading" for Alma which raises her as an icon of male victimisation.
>What Clara and Robert really did is even more remarkable when seen on
>its own terms.
I agree on both points. For me the ideology stems from an attempt to
categorize, something, I believe, we humans tend to do, even when there
is no need to do so.
Writing this I am reminded of the BBC series, "Hilda Tablet, Composeress."
Only the British could have come up with that...
Karl